Serum antioxidant levels in Yusho victims over 30 years after the accidental poisoning of polychlorinated biphenyls in Nagasaki, Japan

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 37-39

  Shimizu, Kazuhiro ^a   Ogawa, Fumihide ^a   Watanabe, Masahisa ^a   Kondo, Takahito ^a   Katayama, Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

polychlorinated biphenyls; superoxide dismutase; Yusho

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; SUPEROXIDE;

AGED; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; YUSHO DISEASE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 11144338372     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0748233703th173oa     Document Type: Article

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